2014年2月26日水曜日

Label: Astral Muse ProductionCatalog#: AM 82053Format: Cassette, AlbumCountry: CanadaReleased: 1984DISCOGSOFFICIAL
A1 Japanese Island 2:25A2 Open Like A Flute 2:10A3 Puja 2:45A4 Boreale 4:15A5 Arrival 6:20A6 Slalom 2:10A7 First Light 5:50B1 Sazz Flute 13:20B2 Aman 16:00
1975年のミニマル/ラーガ「Le Temps des Moissons」、Richard Tinti（リチャード・タンティ）と共同制作された1978年のボルネオ・サウンドスケープ「Osmose」など、世界各地で出会った自然や文化、人々のスピリットを編み込んだ異境の音響作品を発表しているパリ出身のマルチ奏者Ariel Kalma（アリエル・カルマ）。「Open Like A Flute」は、カナダのレーベルAstral Muse Productionからリリースされたカセットのひとつ。日本的な旋律をもつフルート独奏、オルガンとシンセの持続音、口琴＋コスミックなミニマル電子音へと連なるA面から、サントゥールやハーモニウムが瞑想世界の深部へと誘うB面へ。波紋のように広がる超民族/超時空的アンビエンスの中を、ヘビ使いから教えを受けたという循環呼吸を効果的に用いたブレスの長いフルート/サックスが舞い遊ぶ、フリーフォームなニューエイジ作品。
bio.Born and raised in Paris, France, Ariel started playing the recorder at age 9 and saxophone at 15. During his successive studies of Electronics, Computer Science, Music and Art in Paris, Ariel performed with several bands, then toured the world and visited Europe, Japan, India, Eastern Canada, and parts of the USA. Apart from rhythm & blues, pop and jazz, he acquired assorted experiences in middle-age French, electro-acoustic, and modal music. All the travels broadened Ariel's musical horizons tremendously; listening to and playing with different styles, people, and instruments, intricate scales, techniques, timing and rhythms.Ariel Kalma playing guitarAfter learning circular breathing from a snake charmer in India, Ariel practiced it on soprano sax - for many sleepless nights - in the basement of a cathedral in New York (when he was not playing upstairs on the large harmonium). Returning to France in late '76, Ariel could include those endless notes into his own long-delay-effect system with which he toured, playing solo concerts. Ariel contributed to the birth of (then) new music genres: minimalist, space, ambient, new age, electronic etc.With his passion for recording and sound, Ariel always had a home studio and was also technical assistant to some of the composers at Paris' GRM - Musical Research Group part of the INA (Audiovisual National Institute), where he recorded some of his compositions.Over 3 decades, Ariel Kalma published several vinyl LP's, cassettes, and CD's, many older ones out of print. His compositions have been used for modern dance-theatre, films, musical poetry, guided meditations, transformational groups. Ariel Kalma has also played on many albums in France - even throughout Europe, the US and recently Australia, where he lives. - ariel-kalma.com

2014年2月24日月曜日

Label: CentrediscsCatalog#: CMCCD 14109Format: CD, AlbumCountry: CanadaReleased: 2009DISCOGSOFFICIAL
1 Spatial View Of Pond 1 11:582 Noisy River 3:413 Soundstill IV 4:454 Soundstill VI 3:505 Soundstill VII 3:296 Soundstill VIII 3:187 Soundstill IX 2:588 Soundstill X 3:289 Commotion Creek 5:1510 Soundstill V 5:071 Fidget Creek 4:552 Soundstill I 6:223 Soundstill II 6:264 Soundstill III 6:425 Fiddle Creek 5:086 Spatial View Of Pond 2 11:467 Pond Life I 3:238 Pond Life II 3:289 Pond Life III 1:2310 Pond Life IV 3:17
Piano – Christina Petrowska QuilicoRecorded at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, October 17, 2008.
bio.ANN SOUTHAM was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937 but lived most of her life in Toronto. After completing musical studies at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in the early 1960's, Ann Southam began a teaching and composing career which included a long and productive association with modern dance. As well as creating music for some of Canada's major modern dance companies and choreographers including The Toronto Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman, Dancemakers, Patricia Beatty, Christopher House and Rachel Browne, she was an instructor in electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and has also participated in many "composer-in-the-classroom" programs in elementary and high schools. While a great deal of her work was electroacoustic music on tape, in her later years she became increasingly interested in music for acoustic instruments. She composed concert music for a variety of acoustic instruments and instrumental ensembles, working with such artists and ensembles as Eve Egoyan, Christina Petrowska Quilico and Arraymusic. Ann Southam's work was commissioned through the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the CBC, and has been performed in Canada, Europe and the U.S. She is a member of the Canadian Music Centre, the Canadian League of Composers and a founding member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers. She was the recipient of the Friends of Canadian Music Award in 2001. Ann Southam passed away November 25, 2010. - Canadian Music Centre

Label: LMGCatalog#: SX 2686Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: BelgiumReleased: 1977DISCOGS
GalerieA1a a) OuvertureA1b b) PortraitA1c c) Estampe JaponaiseA1d d) TableauxA1e e) Coda-A2 N'Oubliez Pas Le Guide S.V.P.B1a a) CubismeB1b b) Old AlschumieB2 DyptiqueB3a a) GouacheB3b b) PastelB4 N'Oubliez Pas Le Guide S.V.P.Belgian pianist, arranger and producer Luc Henrion, born in Anderlecht in 1954, is better known today as a film and stage music composer. In the late 1970s, he founded his own label, titled LMG (for La Muse Gueule). The first release was folk singer Dominique Delvaux’s Lettre à V. LP in 1977, with all backing instruments by Luc Henrion (more info on this WFMU blog post, thanks to Tony Coulter. Hi, Tony!). The second, and presumably last, release was Henrion’s own solo album, titled Galerie, also in 1977, where he plays all instruments again (piano, organ, harpsichord, polymoog, guitar, zither, bass, drums). The LP was recorded and mixed by Dan Lacksman, founding member of Belgian synth-pop band Telex. Luc Henrion’s Galerie LP blends contemporary piano music and progressive instrumental rock through clever arrangements and mix down. Despite the cover art, Galerie is not a solo piano record, and most tracks are based on elaborate compositions for harpsichord, guitar and organ, among other instruments. In its structure and inspiration, the LP draws from Mussorgski’s Pictures at an Exhibition, 1874, a series of piano preludes each after an artwork by Russian architect Viktor Hartmann. Track titles in Galerie all refer to an art movement or specific technique and the entire album is conceived as a museum visit. The prominent use of piano on most tracks complete the analogy with Pictures at an Exhibition. This LP is also comparable with some solo piano releases on the Igloo and Hasard labels, by Charles Loos or Dominique Lawalrée, for instance. - Mellow records 2013 reissue note ▲

Label: Danacord RecordsCatalog#: DACO 211,212,213,214,215,216Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: DenmarkReleased: 1982DISCOGSOFFICIALA Januar 30:00B Februar 30:00C Marts 30:00D April 30:00E Maj 30:00F Juni 30:00G Juli 30:00H August 30:00I September 30:00J Oktober 30:00K November 30:00L December 30:00
オーフス音楽院で学び、留学先のロンドンでCornelius Cardewに師事。1970年より映画音楽/空間音楽のためのレコーディング・スタジオ/レーベルOctopus Studioを運営、1976年にはデンマーク電子音楽協会を設立するなど、デンマークの電子音楽分野を切り開いた作曲家Gunner Møller Pedersen（グンアル・メラー・ペダルセン）。ニューエイジ/プレアンビエントのカルト的名盤としても知られる74年作「Stoned - An Electronic Symphony」に続く「Et Lydår」は、コペンハーゲンのニイ・カールスベルグ・グリプトテク美術館（Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek）内の亜熱帯園「ウィンターガーデン」のための環境音楽として、1977-82年に作曲されたエレクトロアコースティック12編を収録した6枚組長編作。"Januar"から"December"までの12ヶ月、それぞれ約30分のサウンドイメージ。環境音を素材にしながら、易しい自然賛美ではない、冷たく硬質なドローンを基調にした暗く煢然たるアンビエンスに貫かれていて、暦＝天体運行まで視座を高めたコスモロジカルなタッチで、1460分の1スケールの1年間が描かれています。2011年に現代音楽レーベルDacapo Recordsから、6枚組CDで再発。
bio.For thirty years Gunner Møller Pedersen (b. 1943) has worked determinedly and uncom-promised to realize a vision of spatial music. This vision prompted him to work with electronics at a time when they were neither fashionable nor easy to work with, and he became one of Denmark's few pioneers in this field. A Sound Year must be regarded not only as Gunner Møller Pedersen's masterpiece, but also as a cornerstone of Danish electroacustic music. - Dacapo Records

2014年2月12日水曜日

Label: Opus OneCatalog#: Number 17Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 1974DISCOGS
A Joel Chadabe - Ideas Of Movement At Bolton Landing 15:42B Randall McClellan - Distant Voices 12:19Joel Chadabe, composer, author, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the development of interactive music systems. He has concertized widely since 1969, with Jan Williams, Bruno Sperri, and other musicians, presenting his music at venues and festivals such as Klangprojektionen 4.4 (Vienna), Ear to the Earth (New York City), Computing Music IV (Cologne), HörZeit-SpielRaum 2005 (Berlin), ISCM Festival (Miami), NYU Interactive (NYC), New Mix (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), Expanded Instruments Festival (Engine 27, New York City), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), Venice Biennale, Wellington Festival (New Zealand), Aarhus Festival (Denmark), De Isbreker (Amsterdam), New Music America, Inventionen (Berlin), IRCAM (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Electronic Music Festival (Stockholm), and New Music New York. His music is recorded on EMF Media, Deep Listening, CDCM, Centaur, Lovely Music, Opus One, CP2, and Folkways labels.As president of Intelligent Music from 1983-1994, he was responsible for the development and publication of a wide range of innovative and historically important software, including M and Max, as well as the TouchSurface, an xyz touch-sensitive computer input device. In 1977, with Roger Meyers, he co-authored The PLAY Program, the first software sequencer. In 1967, while director of the Electronic Music Studio at State University of New York at Albany (1965 - 1998), he designed the CEMS (Coordinated Electronic Music Studio) System, an analog-programmable electronic music system, and commissioned Robert Moog to build it. - www.chadabe.comRandall McClellan is a Professor Emeritus of Music and director of the Centre of Sacred Sound who holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in music composition from the Eastman School of Music. A composer, performer, teacher and author, he is internationally recognized as a leading authority on music consciousness and healing, philosophy of music and fostering intuitive creativity through the arts.

2014年2月7日金曜日

Label: Move RecordsCatalog#: MS 3035Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: AustraliaReleased: 1981DISCOGSOFFICIAL
Tank PiecesA1 No. 6 Bamboo Flute 5:07A2 No. 7 Fleet, Water, Conduit Hose 4:15A3 No. 1 Vocal Improvisation 3:56A4 No. 9 Renaissance Soprano Recorder 4:00A5 No.1 4 Cymbal And Water 4:49A6 No. 10 Fragment For Bamboo Flute And Voice 1:26
Silo PiecesB1 Silo Song Voice And Bullroarer 2:47B2 Distant Polyphony 2 Recorders 3:06B3 Mating Call Male And Female Voices 4:13B4 Sweet Germinal Wheat Lute And Recorder 4:19B5 DOG Bass Recorder, Dog Nearby 4:52 B6 FLY Rampage Renaissance Flute 2:23
Side A recorded inside a water storage tank on June 22nd 1979 at Kardella farm near Korrumburra, Gippsland, Victoria using Sennheiser binaural microphones on a dummy head and a Nagra 1VS. The tank itself is also played and recorded along with the sounds of the environment. Side B recorded inside a wheat silo on October 20th 1979 at Young township, Lambing Flat, NSW using condensor microphones and a Nagra 1VS.
...インスタレーションの製作、自作音響彫刻のパフォーマンスや古楽アンサンブルなどの演奏活動を展開するオーストラリア・ジーロン出身のサウンドアート作家/音楽学者Ros Bandt（ロス・バント）。録音作品では、個人名義やLIME（Live Improvised Music Events）名義でインプロヴィゼーションを発表されていますが、本作は70年代から続く貯水槽や穀物貯蔵用サイロ内部での演奏を、編集の手を加えずにそのまま収めたライブ・レコーディング初期作品。尺八、テープレコーダー、リュート、ヴォイス、土製の打楽器、そして演者による物音や気配が、タンク内の残響空間に音の海を満たし、煙のようにゆっくりと減退してゆく。演者が自らの音を注意深くリスニングする様子は、同じく洞窟や巨大貯水槽などで演奏したDeep Listening Band（Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis）に近しいものです。「環境」を楽器化し、場と演者の共鳴によって構造を浮き彫りにするサウンド・バフォーマンスは、音楽ジャンルや演奏形態を問わない、アンビエント・ミュージックのオルタナティヴ。Ros Bandt is an internationally recognised composer and sound artist. Improvisation in Acoustic Chambers was recorded in 1979 in a concrete water tank and a wheat silo using a binaural dummy-head microphone and a Nagra tape recorder with no editing or production effects. Released on vinyl LP in 1981, Bandt credits this recording with inspiring her to ‘create architectural and spatial musics’. She is currently engaged in creating a digital acoustic sanctuary celebrating the sounds of the Jaara Jaara Box-Ironbark Forest of North Central Victoria.

Another due reissue of valuable New Wave materials “Made In Italy” that stretches around thirty-seven tracks contained on a double CD. Bi Nostalgia was the solo project of Luca Rigato, already part of the duo Endless Nostalgia. Composed and recorded between 1984 and 1987 (with the addition of one more recent unreleased track), all songs have been completely remastered from the original master tapes of "Anthems for Losers", "Dances of the Pessimism", "The Seeping Mouth”, “Cathedrals EP","Art Is Not Much" and "Philokalia", all published on Bi Nostalgia’s own label The League of the Gloomers. These tracks introduce the listener to the author's innermost world – a convinced exponent of a “losers aesthetics” but also a skilled craftsman maker of detailed soundscapes of great density and abstraction – that confront himself with his reference points: ambient music in general and the European / American serialist composers. Touching new age fascinations, refined sonorities, epic atmospheres and elementary compositive structures. A finely crafted visionary pop music, enhanced by arrangements that give to the compositions a seductive sense of lightness and purity. - Silentes